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Packing for a Successful Fishing Trip with Tight Loops Fly
Packing and preparing for a fishing trip doesn’t need to feel like a chore–if you are organized, of course. If you’re like us and have a checklist for every type of outdoor activity imaginable, that small piece of paper labeled “fishing trip essentials” becomes your roadmap for the weekend ahead. With Pelican, we’ve designed our products to put your mind at ease, ensuring that every piece of fishing gear you hold near and dear is stored in an organized and protected manner. We asked avid outdoor enthusiasts and Team Pelican members, Aimee and Chase Bartee for their expertise on how they prepare for a successful fishing expedition.
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Pelican Joins MeatEater Tailgate Tour
Fall is here, and that means it’s time for college football. Pelican ProductsTM is excited to team up with MeatEater as the official cooler provider for the 2024-2025 MeatEater Tailgate Tour. The tour celebrates the connection between football and the outdoor lifestyle, bringing fans together to enjoy game day and nature adventures.
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Pelican Product Spotlight: The Best Tacklebox and Waterproof Case
If you are an angler, rucker, or love the great outdoors, you need a good tacklebox or waterproof case. Anytime you are near a river, lake, ocean, or body of water, you need to keep your gear dry and protected, whether carrying bait and lures or survival and camping gear. Pelican is a name you can trust when it comes to the best tacklebox and waterproof case. Pelican offers products that protect everything you value, at home, on the job site, or out in nature. They make products that can take a beating and hold up under any conditions. They promise quality and are committed to delivering products that meet their high standards. If you need a new tacklebox or waterproof case, here are two of the best on the market. They are some of Pelican’s toughest, most durable models. These boxes can handle whatever you throw their way and keep your supplies dry and safe in even the roughest conditions. Shop Pelican’s Ultra-Tough Coolers
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The Different Types of Coolers: An Ultimate Guide
Despite the fact that the cooler market is expected to reach 1,024.5 million by 2026, many folks think that a cooler is a cooler. This could not be further from the truth as there are a wide array of different types of coolers. Moreover, the types of coolers that one might be interested in procuring will also vary based on their use, quality, features and so much more. Ultimately, this means that all coolers are not created equal. Thus, there can actually be a bit of complexity involved with understanding the uses for different types of coolers and choosing one that will serve you well.
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How to Keep Meat Cool While Hunting
A week-long hunting trip is a lot different than a day-long excursion. Instead of a convenient walk-in cooler or ice chest back at home a few hours away, you’ll need to contend with butchered meat from the moment you take down the animal to prevent it from spoiling. In this guide, Pelican offers some tips on how to keep meat cool when hunting. In addition, we explore how soon after the shot you need to get the meat cool and how to tell if your meat is already gone and unsafe to eat. Understanding How Meat Spoils Spoiled meat is caused by bacteria, which can grow in certain ideal conditions. Temperature, for example, can cause bacteria to grow quite rapidly. The USDA states that bacteria can double once temperatures reach above 40 degrees Fahrenheit. So unless you are hunting in winter, you need to recover your kill and keep your meat from spoiling as soon as possible. Otherwise, if the deer or game is left unattended, it can begin to spawn bacteria from its organs, spoiling the meat and going to waste. How long do you have after you make the shot? Don’t let the game lay there for more than half an hour before field-dressing and removing the organs and getting the quartered meat on ice. How to Keep Meat Cool When Hunting First Things First: Field Dress the Animal Learning how to properly gut and field dress animals is an important step in preserving meat. If you aim well and strike the neck, lungs, heart or liver, it will bleed the animal out, removing an extra step. However, you must still remove the organs, including the heart and lungs, which requires breaking the sternum — and quickly! Once you finish field dressing the deer or whatever you shoot, you can also throw some ice in the newly-made cavity and throw it in a hunting cooler. If you’re hunting big game like deer or elk, we suggest using a rolling cooler with wheels to carry it back to your truck or vehicle once it’s loaded up and heavy. Shop Hard Coolers for Your Next Hunting Trip Dry the Meat and Cool It Slowly (If Necessary) After taking apart the game, keep the quarters dry as possible, cooling them slowly over time in the shade. Then, place the quarters on a clear tarp or clean plastic trash bags somewhere shaded, like beneath a tree, and give them time to air dry. When hunting in the colder months, all you need is a few hours to dry them. However, it’s the warmer months you need to worry about. For the warmer seasons, you want to be sure to keep the meat cool. This is where a cooler comes in handy. Instead of leaving the meat out to dry, place it in a high-quality hard cooler that can keep it fresh for several days. Extra Tip: While you might want to keep that perfectly white cooler interior as clean as possible, never place meat in a garbage bag. The airflow is not adequate and the meat will actually sweat, making a pretty awful odor instead. It’s easier to clean a cooler of blood than to try to remove a smell. Keep Meat Above Ice
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The Best Time to Fish for Bass
Ready to catch some bass? You have the right lures and know a good fishing hole, but when precisely should you carve out some time? Bass, like many fish, have their own habits, feeding and spawning during certain hours of the day and seasons within the year. So, just when should you plan to hitch the boat up and head to the lake? Spring, summer, fall or winter? Here’s the best time to fish for bass! The Best Time to Fish for Bass Generally speaking, the best time to fish for bass is at dawn and dusk. Catching bass requires you to wake up early in the morning and to stay out later in the evening. Why is this? Because bass like to hunt and feed in low-light environments. Before the sun rises high in the sky, bass can hunt better. Alternatively, you can also catch bass midday if it’s overcast and rainy, too. When it comes to the best season to fish for bass, spring and summer are good times. Ideally, it’s when the water temperatures range from 60 to 80 degrees. However, many anglers will also tell you that it’s in spring whenever bass begin to spawn. When bass begin to spawn, they feed heavily to fatten up so they have energy for reproduction. During their feeding times, the bass get more active, jumpy and aggressive, which means they will take the bait more readily.
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How to Surf Fish for Beginners
Want to pick up fishing but lack a boat for the high seas? You don’t need one! Try surf fishing instead. It’s an easy way to break into saltwater fishing, plus it takes minimal effort to head to the nearest shore and requires much less fuel than a vessel.
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6 Deep Sea Fishing Tips for Beginners
Tired of fishing on the lake for bass or fly fishing for trout? Love the delicate, meatier taste of fresh saltwater fish? Then it might be time to try some blue water, deep sea fishing. Whether you have your heart set on catching Mahi Mahi, Tarpon, Shark or Wahoo, it takes more than artificial bait and patience. You have to know where to look in the vast ocean and what you’re doing!
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How to Become a Fishing Guide
Love to fish and know your local waters like the back of your hand? Love meeting new people, too? Then you might be an excellent fishing guide! If you feel like you are the master and commander of your vessel and know precisely where to find every type of fish, rise to the challenge and become a fishing guide.
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8 Tips for Successful Night Fishing
Night fishing has many advantages. It’s the perfect alternative to a blisteringly hot summer day. Plus, you can catch a wide variety of fish, stirring them from their sleep and catching them off their guard. However, while night fishing can be lots of fun, it can be challenging, too. Luckily, with these eight tips and tricks, you are bound to catch a few fish. So pack your personal cooler with some midnight munchies and grab the rods. It’s time to go night fishing!
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How to Fly Fish: A Guide to Getting Started
Many of us who have fished with a spinner rod for years inevitably become interested in learning how to fly fish. There’s just something poetic about watching an experienced fly fisher cast a fly into the water at sunset, their silhouette illuminated by a red sky and their smooth casting motion on full display.
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How to Fish for Wallleye
With a delicious fillet, walleye is one of the most sought after freshwater fish. But even for an experienced angler, walleye are challenging to catch. However, we have a feeling you’re up for the challenge, which is why we put together this beginner guide on how to fish for walleye, from choosing the best rod and filament to using live bait and more.
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Hooked: 5 Tips for Winter Bass Fishing
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a few more angling days before storing rods away for winter? Well, the good news is that it’s not only possible, but it’s a great time for catching bass! In fact, winter bass fishing might present the perfect opportunity to reel in your biggest trophy fish yet.
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